- the mongols were culturally different fom the chinese which made it very difficult to rule them.
- the mongols and the chinese spoke different languages...many different background and customs to overcome.
- They spent excessively and they restricted trade which depleted china economically.
- Canals and palaces were built, which required the peasants to both supply more tax money and to leace their homes to build them.
- They launched campaigns against Japan which were not successful and destroyed many chinese ships.
- they forbid the chinese to learn to speak different languages
- They made it very difficult to trade and travel outside of china which limited the chinese and made them unhappy
- It was the first of only two times that the entire area of China was ruled by foreigners, in this case, the Mongols.
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